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tart pull: try to re-use APFS blocks by cloning the base image

Open edigaryev opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

To be honest, I'm not a fan of this approach, because it's incredibly hard to measure the real-world impact of this, both in terms of CPU overhead and disk usage savings1.

The reason being that these variables are highly influenced by the contents of the base VM image (from which we're de-duplicating) and by the contents of the VM image to be pulled, yet we only have a few publicly available.

1: It feels that in some cases even losses, because we can't skip writing a zero block if the file we're basing off contains some other data in that place.

edigaryev avatar Jul 15 '24 19:07 edigaryev